'Substantial amounts of high-impact vulnerability research (maybe even most of it) will happen simply by pointing an agent at a source tree and typing “find me zero days”'
Not quite... what is forgotten here is that the developers themselves, with equal ease, _also_ will point agents at the source tree and will type "find me zero days".
Nope. What the real effect has been is a waste of billions of billions that have gone into changing stuff that never needed changing. Future development has now been slowed down as well in the EU.
All it takes to see that government regulation never works, is to look at how far behind the EU is in terms of GDP growth compared with the US and China who both have a significantly lighter touch when it comes to regulation.
The EU is f*cked, and will become a little socialist region, with manual and tourist industry jobs, where rich people from the rest of the world go for a few weeks of vacation.
I left the EU a long time ago, and I've earned so much money after leaving the socialist madness, that I recommend all young people I meet to do the same.
It's not self evident this is caused by regulation.
And regulation generally certainly works when it come to regulating and splitting up monopolies and oligopolies, workers right and etc. (US has plenty of both even if its occasionally idiosyncratic)
”Rrgulation never works”, is a very shallow take. It could mean anything. China is an autocratic system. Is that working? The US is going in that direction.
On top of that, Europe isn’t a country. To have less regulation, you need more of it. Unifying regulations, or else you have dozens of completely different jurisdictions. To a large extent, you still do, even with the EU. You can’t sell to the general public in English. There are so many more things holding Europe back than ”need deregulation”.
It's a sweet role. You get 2x the pay, and the only thing you have to do is act like a decent human, and select your team with nm precision, and you can just coast along and collect the pay check.
The only problem is the manager level above you. If you're the guy who likes plain speaking and speaking the truth, being a manager is not for you. If you have sycophantic tendencies, you'll last a long time.
Every time I've been a manager I work longer hours than the people I manage doing things they would hate to do, so they can do the things they are good at.
I do joke with my team though that my role involves drinking champagne in limousines. They get the joke.
Sounds like you need to level up your mgmt skills, or choose your team better. It is also important, as a manager, to set the norm that 80 hour weeks are not acceptable and only pulled by inefficient people and companies who cannot plan.
If anyone in my team consistently worked more than 40 hours per week, inluding myself, that is a sign that something is wrong and must be fixed.
My team is fine, 40 hours is the norm. I do work longer hours than that, but not much more unless there's a huge crunch on, which happens maybe once a year.
You make a lot of assumptions about my team, my management skills and the hours we all work. It comes across as patronising; maybe you should level up your soft skills.
If some bureaucracy is what keeps you from realizing the idea or not, then the idea, and the earningspotential seems quite bad. If you are going to start a company, make sure there is some good earningspotential. That way, a bit of bureaucracy in the begining will not be so tough, especially when the money comes rolling in.
So I think the fact that you worry about bureaucracy signals that maybe you should rethink your idea.
For hobby projects, don't bother with a company. It is possible in any country to earn money on the side as a hobby. Sure, if you live in the EU, the taxes will eat away most, if not all the profit, but it's a hobby and learning opportunity.
Once you tested, and see potential for serious money, just pay someone to start the company for you. Easy peasy!
Ditch the phone. The liability, tracking and mental health problems created due to modern phones has made owning one unsustainable. Email works, at worst, voip providers exist. Do you need a map? Print one. Do you need directions? Ask someone. Does the restaurant only offer app or qr, ask someone, or go somewhere else.
I have never encountered a phone-related problem that could not be solved with:
1. A print out.
2. Asking someone.
3. Using your web browser on your computer.
4. Using some kind of voip if audio communication is needed.
Yes, it is not as convenient as the surveillance and privacy nightmares of today, but if your life is only about convenience, then send your money to the government, and let them just decide for you how much money you need, and you don't even have to think about that.
A minor inconvenience is a price well paid for freedom from surveillance and excellent mental health.
The ones who complain about inconvenience don't really care about privacy, democracy and freedom, so should not complain when these things are attacked.
Yea, driving a modern / newer car is just as bad privacy-wise as having a mobile phone. I mentioned plate readers as I was expecting "Don't drive new cars" given the "don't use mobile phone" comment :)
I don't agree a phone free life is an insane idea at all. It is in fact extremely reasonable, rational, and admirable. The parent makes it sound easier than it is though. You might consider that part "insane".
I have tried really really hard to break the phone addiction too. Though so far without durable success, unfortunately. :-(
On a google pixel? No thank you. Please come again when you run on jolla or some other ethical companiys hardware. I cannot buy a phone that will lead to google earning money.
You can buy a used phone that will give no money to Google. I also hope for it to come to other smartphones, but not at the cost of compromised privacy and security. The reason that GrapheneOS only runs on Pixels is that they support the specific hardware requirements of GrapheneOS, including having an unlockable and relockable bootloader which is pretty cool of Google. I am sure that the GrapheneOS team would love to move on from being tied to a specific vendor's hardware and are working with Motorola to do just that.
Yep. The ability to work without paying taxes in this profession is of enormous value. It keeps prices lower for the consumer, and income higher for the handyman.
I seen many handymen with the latest and greatest luxury cars, and the demand is endless.
On the other side, it seems technologists salaries are stagnating, and the new guys on the market get lower and lower salaries, so it does indeed seem as if the best and quickest way to retiring early is the handyman approach coupled with a high level of non-taxes work.
If you're willing to commit fraud anyway, just run a crypto scam. The payout is a lot higher, and it will use the white collar tech skills you already have rather than forcing you to learn a trade.
It's for certain a drain on the military industrial complex, but building houses while not supporting the current regime is certainly better than draining a bunch electricity to enrich only yourself and paying money to a bunch of authoritarian wannabe's.
I am impressed with your compression of the entirety of this conversation down to two values of right/wrong. /s
Amen! As so often in western society, men have no value at best, and are horrible monsters at worst. No one cares about the male part in these situations, which is a shame. But carry on, I will pray that you will succeed!
Zero knowledge is not true. All chains rely, ultimately, on a place where ID:s are stored, and from there, they will leak. That place can also be engineered to undo the zero knowledge design. Couple that with the already in place, surveillance by ISP:s within the EU, and it becomes obvious that zero knowledge is a scam, and only valid under unreal conditions that will never apply in the EU, and only in isolation, and not looking at the entire system.
Yep. Sadly the EU is more or less lost, and freedom online will be squashed. I would not be surprised if age verification will tie in with the EU digital wallet, and with the EU democracy shield surveillance project, so that any opposition to Brussels ideological stance will get you disconnected from your bank, money, purchases, and your ability to ID yourself.
Basically, the chinese, through WTO, managed to utilize corona to show politicians, regardless of color, the enormous power of complete digital control of the population.
Our spineless and incompetent EU politicians thought it very erotic, and are now ramming it down our throats.
I don't really see a way to stop this apart from moving to south america or africa, to a small country with a weak government.
Not quite... what is forgotten here is that the developers themselves, with equal ease, _also_ will point agents at the source tree and will type "find me zero days".
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